THE alleged mastermind of an audacious international scam
to sell Hitler's suicide pistol and the gun of
Hitler's niece and lover Geli Raubal for $4.75
million has surfaced in Queensland as the head of a militant
Jewish
group.

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At one stage, a page was removed by razor blade from a
file at the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz and a letter by Himmler
in 1935 identifying the guns by serial numbers
substituted.

The phony Nazi documents were designed to entice traders
into thinking the guns were genuine.

O'Hara, who police say
perpetrated the document frauds, has emerged on the Gold
Coast as Korwan, the Queensland head of the Jewish
Defence League, whose leader was arrested
last year over an alleged plan
to blow up a mosque in Los Angeles.

Queensland Jewish Board of
Deputies president David Paratz said the local
Jewish community totally dissociated itself from the JDL and
he had no reason to think Korwan was Jewish.

But in an e-mail to The Courier-Mail, Shelly
Rubin, whose husband Irv
Rubin was arrested for plotting to bomb the LA
mosque and a Muslim public affairs office, said Korwan was
the JDL's Queensland leader.

O'Hara as Korwan was quoted in The Jewish Journal of
Los Angeles in April as having raised $US2.25 million
for an international campaign to re-establish the outlawed
Israeli Kach party of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the JDL's
founder, who was assassinated in New York in 1990.

O'Hara this week said he had information that terrorists
would target an Australian monument and that about 10
terrorists operated from Lakemba and Auburn mosques in
Sydney. He said he had spent decades hunting Nazi war
criminals and Palestinian terrorists, but a source said he
simply had reinvented himself as a JDL activist to claim a
political motive for the Hitler gun plot.

O'Hara said the Hitler gun ploy aimed to flush out
anti-Jewish international gun traders.

"Through the Hitler guns scenario the JDL have identified
several major sources of illegal arms operators supplying to
so-called legitimate Arab royals who, in turn, passed on the
arms to the terrorist cells in the Middle East and now
Australia a king other places," he said. He claimed an Arab
royal had offered $US1 million and another had offered
$US2.5 million.